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September 18, 2005, Sunday

IT takes imagination and audacity to look at the East 161st Street corridor, as Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr. does, and envision it as ''Downtown Bronx,'' a civic, commercial, recreational and cultural crossroads. But it requires less...

''THE last thing I ever wanted to do was to open a gallery,'' Kenny Schachter said the other day from behind an enormous, swooping steel desk in his six-month-old gallery in Greenwich Village. Fast-talking and opinionated, with a tendency to hold...

March 2, 2003, Sunday

A floating ''island'' by the Brooklyn designer Vito Acconci is being completed in Graz, the industrial city in Austria that will be the next cultural capital of the European Union. The $5 million project, right, is constructed on pontoons permanently...

Vito Acconci, the artist best known for biting himself in public (''Trademarks''), masturbating under the floorboards of a gallery (''Seedbed'') and struggling to enunciate words with his mouth held wide open (''Open Book''), has been working in...